Summary

Trump is pushing for softer language on Russia’s war in Ukraine, straining G7 unity.

Officials say the U.S. is blocking references to “Russian aggression” and prefers calling it the “Ukraine conflict.”

This shift follows Trump’s peace talks with Putin that excluded Ukraine’s President Zelensky, whom Trump later called a “dictator.”

The change in rhetoric contrasts with Biden-era support for Ukraine and threatens a unified G7 stance.

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      Coming from a country with ranked voting and more than 2 parties, this looks so ridiculous. It’s like the USA electoral system is designed to make people bicker amongst themselves about who is the lesser evil, while oligarchs take control.

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        Veritasium, on yt ( not a guy I recommend frequently ) has a vid on election-systems.

        Approval-disapproval seems to be the sanest electing-system there is…

        All the ranked-choice-systems logically have problems, though no-where near as bad as 1st-past-the-post idiocy.

        Please, people, if you’re interested in the sanest voting-system possible, watch that video, & then organize to replace your system with the currently-best-option, which seems, from that vid, to be the approval/disapproval system.

        ( it makes the most-approved person win, and one can approve-of multiple different candidates, so the majority-of-voters get heard, no-matter-what, see? )

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      To be fair, most Americans do fall for things pretty easily when all they have to do is literally nothing

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        Humans in general. Tell people that “doing nothing” is the moral action and they’ll sure as fuck do nothing, because it’s the path of least resistance.

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      In maybe the most important race of this country’s history, Harris couldn’t bring herself to denounce genocide and war crimes like a decent human being and instead chose to support a corrupt, fascist foreign nation that more closely resembles Nazi Germany than another country today.

      Party loyalists tut-tut at the voters and learn exactly nothing, yet again.

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        Party loyalists tut-tut at the voters and learn exactly nothing, yet again.

        The non-voters voted in Trump who is trying to be more fascist and corrupt than the other country you’re alluding to.